Essence Band & Show (NC)

Essence Band & Show is a 7-piece entertainment group, playing high-teck tracks and drum machines and a crazy blend of music, spanning from Rhythm and Blues, Golden Oldies and Top Forty music through the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and the new millennium. Their performances are full of energy, laughter and fun as they pride themselves on this wide array of music. Essence specializes in playing for wedding receptions, fraternity, sorority and Masonic balls, community functions, birthday, holiday parties, family reunions, and more...Essence will shy away from no challenge and has played before every type of audience, even country/Western.

Essence travels up and down the east coast, performing from Miami to New York. Essence Band & Show originated in 1990 in Richmond, VA as a 3-piece group and have expanded their size and extended their traveling route ever since.

Essence Band & Show is, Tony Banks, J.T. Jackson, Doris "Bunny" Cobb, J.C. Corbett, Leslie Harris, Mike Crawford, and George "Cheez" Armwood.

Staples Singers

I'll Take You There

Grover Washinton Jr.

Mr. Magic

The O'Jays

Used To Be My Girl

We Cried Together

For The Love of Money

The Temptations

My Girl

Papa Was A Rolling Stone

Ain't Too Proud To Beg

Labelle

Lady Marmalade

The Drifters

Under The Boardwalk

The Gap Band

Outstanding

Early In The Morning

Yearning For Your Love

Levert

Cassanova

Rufus and Chaka Khan

Tell Me Something Good

Gladys Knight and The Pips

Neither One of Us

Al Green

For the Good Times

The Rolling Stones

Start Me Up

Eddie Floyd

Knock On Wood

Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes

If You Don't Know Me By Now

The Sugar Hill Gang

Rapper's Delight

Luther Vandross

Wait For Love

Bad Boy Having a Party

Mary J. Blige

Love No Limit

Family Affair

Mark Morrison

Return of the Mack

Jodeci

Get On Up

Sam and Dave

Soul Man

E.U.

Da' Butt

Johnnie Gill

My, My, My

Larry Graham

One In A Million

Hall and Oates

Sarah Smile

McFadden and Whitehead

Ain't No Stopping Us Now

Blackstreet

No Diggity

Montel Jordan

This is How We Do It

Kool and the Gang

Celebration

Ladies' Night

Jungle Boogie

Hollywood Swingin'

George Clinton and the P-Funk Allstars

One Nation Under A Groove

Next

Too Close

Cheryl Lynn

To Be Real

L.T.D.

Love Ballad

Back In Love Again

The Commodores

Brick House

Easy

Wilson Pickett

Mustang Sally

Otis Redding

Sitting on the Dock of the Bay

Arrested Development

Everyday People

Mary Wells

My Guy

Marvin Gaye

Got To Give It Up

Cameo

Single Life

She's Strange

Keep It Hot

Word Up

Shake Your Pants

Rick James

Give it to Me Baby

Diana Ross and the Supremes

Where Did Our Love Go

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Heat Wave

Shabba Ranks

House Calls

Ohio Players

Skin Tight

Fire

Slave

Slide

Lakeside

Fantastic Voyage

Barry White

Practice What You Preach

Maze featuring Frankie Beverly

Laid Back

Happy Feelings

Before I Let Go

R.Kelly

Home Alone

Betty Wright

The Clean Up Woman

Mel Waiters

Hole In The Wall

Dennis Edwards

Don't Look Any Further

Jackie Wilson

Baby Workout

Sunshine Anderson

Heard It All Before

Jaheim

Just In Case

Put That Woman First

Musiq

Just Friends

Jill Scott

The Way

Keith Sweat featuring Cut Close

Nobody

Ben E. King

Stand By Me

Joe

I Wanna Know

Ja Rule featuring Ashanti

What's Love Got To Do With It

Tyrone Davis

Can I Change My Mind

Atlantic Star

Always

Dave Hollister

One Woman Man

Angie Stone

No More Rain

Mtume

Juicy Fruit

Beyonce Knowles

Crazy In Love

John Lee Hooker

Dimples

Sam Cooke

You Send Me

Erika Badu

Love of My Life

Nat King Cole

The Christmas Song

Donnie Hathaway

This Christmas

The Temptations

Silent Night

Line Dance Songs

Electric Slide

Booty Call

Johnnie Taylor Slide

Cha Cha Slide

Get Up, Get Down, Get Funky, Get Loose